Friday, March 02, 2012

Peter Suber just posted the March 2012 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month: a thorough and authoritative (as usual) look at the Research Works Act and the Federal Research Public
Access Act (FRPAA), with links to important historical information.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Announced today is the Directory of Open Access Books or DOAB. From the press release:

DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. The beta version of the service will contain publications of a selected number of academic publishers. The beta version will be made public early spring 2012.

As there is the long-established Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), it makes sense to have something similar for the burgeoning world of OA monographs. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

Friday, September 02, 2011

Peter Suber just released the September 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Peter's description as posted to the SPARC OA Forum: Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, this issue reflects on the problem of access to dangerous knowledge.
It also describes how I'll have to trim future issues to make time for a large new OA project at Harvard. The look-back sections reprint short excerpts from SOAN five and ten years ago this month.